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Allow yourself to graduate, every five years.

Cathy Guisewite

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Cathy Guisewite
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 5
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Dayton
Ohio
Cathy Lee Guisewite
Graduates
Allow
Five
Every
Years
Graduate

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[On men:] I'm torn between wanting to have one and wanting to be one.
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